Functionally the planning division carries out four activities: long-range state planning, current state planning, local planning assistance ; ;

Of course, the current state of technology at any given time can put limitations on what can be achieved experimentally and theoretically so it may take considerable time for theory to be refined.

The current GMD system has the more limited goal of shielding against a limited attack by a rogue state.

Mainly due to reunification-related expenditures, Berlin as a German state has accumulated more debt than any other city in Germany, with the most current estimate being € 60 ($ 84 ) bn in December 2007.

* Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and Country Park: website for the museum, contains information and photos about current state of the battlefield

The current state of faculty development in two-year colleges.

The CRTC is sometimes blamed for the current state of the mobile phone industry in Canada, in which there are only three national mobile network operators – Bell Mobility, Telus Mobility, and Rogers Wireless – as well as a handful of MVNOs operating on these networks.

The current state of the art in 3-D image description for movie creation is the mental ray scene description language designed at mental images and the RenderMan shading language designed at Pixar .< ref >

Although the more radical consequences of the global communication network predicted by some cyberspace proponents ( i. e. the diminishing of state influence envisioned by John Perry Barlow ) failed to materialize and the word lost some of its novelty appeal, it remains current as of 2006.

A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the operating system or application.

According to Christian writers, most notably Paul, the Bible teaches that people are, in their current state, sinful, and the New Testament reveals that Jesus is both the Son of man and the Son of God, united in the hypostatic union, God the Son, God made incarnate ; that Jesus ' death by crucifixion was a sacrifice to atone for all humanity's sins, and that acceptance of Jesus as Savior and Lord saves one from Divine Judgment, giving Eternal life.

* A survey of and introduction to the current state of critical social theory is Craig Calhoun's Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference ( Blackwell, 1995 ) ISBN 1-55786-288-5

The term medical condition is used as a synonym for medical state, where it describes a patient's current state, as seen from a medical standpoint.

Where Whorf reasoned that the sophistication of a language controls the sophistication of the thoughts that can be expressed by a speaker of that language, Engelbart reasoned that the state of our current technology controls our ability to manipulate information, and that fact in turn will control our ability to develop new, improved technologies.

Contemporary deism attempts to integrate classical deism with modern philosophy and the current state of scientific knowledge.

Later, however, the Sultan changed his orders and had Fakhr-al-Din and his family killed on 13 April 1635 in Istanbul, bringing an end to an era in the history of Lebanon, which would not regain its current boundaries until it was proclaimed a mandate state and republic in 1920.

The DOM is also the way in which JavaScript sees the state of the browser and the current HTML page.

The evolution rule of the dynamical system is a fixed rule that describes what future states follow from the current state.

The rule is deterministic ; in other words, for a given time interval only one future state follows from the current state.

The current government has embarked on a program of economic reform, including privatization of state enterprises and rationalization of government regulation.

Alternating current is affected by electrical properties that are not observed under steady state direct current, such as inductance and capacitance.

A ring current is an electric current carried by charged particles trapped in a planet's magnetosphere.

Aviation sectionals ( maps / charts ) and databases used for air navigation are based on True north rather than magnetic north, and the constant and significant slight changes in the actual location of magnetic north and local irregularities in the planet's magnetic field require that charts and databases be updated at least 2 times per year to reflect the current magnetic variation correction from True north.

The planet's current inhabitants are human-like, but with six fingers on each hand and with skin that darkens and lightens dramatically as the weather changes.

Octopon seems to have been centuries ahead of the current technological state of Mer, although it is probable that civilization is continually in decline due to the Dark Water oozing from the planet's core.

Here he revealed that this was the plan of the Tripredacus Council, who were not descended from Autobot and Decepticon like the rest of the Cybertronians, and wanted the planet's current existence erased from the timeline ( and hence would not have been affected by the destruction of The Ark ).

However a scientist named Dr. Minimizer has an idea: using a device he calls " The Minimizer Ray " ( named after his last name as the device suggests ), he will shrink the planet's population to 1 / 360th of its original size, and so create a world more suitable to our current status.

A planet's stats are unknown until explored ( to get current info on a planet, a player must have ships in orbit with no enemies present ).

The second choice, full testing, has become even more risky just because the current Soviet tests have already dangerously contaminated the atmosphere.

When the traversal encounters an atom through which the current path has already passed, a ghost atom is generated in order to keep the tree finite.

( The SI second as now used for UTC, when adopted, was already a little shorter than the current value of the second of mean solar time.

The main current debate concerning ESP surrounds whether or not statistically compelling laboratory evidence for it has already been accumulated.

He also argued that the current framework is moral, both because proving mamzer status sufficiently beyond all doubt is already so difficult that it is rare, and because the mere existence and possibility of mamzerut status, even if rarely enforced, creates an important incentive for divorcing parties to obtain a get ( Jewish religious divorce ) to avoid the sin of adultery.

" Behe specifically explained that the " current definition puts the focus on removing a part from an already functioning system ", but the " difficult task facing Darwinian evolution, however, would not be to remove parts from sophisticated pre-existing systems ; it would be to bring together components to make a new system in the first place ".

Considering the current tight monomers market, particularly in propylene, and the benefits of membrane-based recovery processes, major polyolefin producers around the world already employ them in new state-of-the-art plants.

The term " nouvelle gauche " was already current in France in the 50s, associated with France Observateur, and its editor Claude Bourdet, who attempted to form a third position, between the dominant Stalinist and Social Democratic tendencies of the left, and the two Cold War blocs.

The Lotus Sutra, however, teaches that Buddhahood is already inherent within one ’ s current life.

During the second millennium BCE, Syria was occupied successively by Canaanites, Phoenicians, and Arameans as part of the general disruptions associated with the Sea Peoples ; the Phoenicians settled along the coastline of these area as well as in the west ( Now Lebanon & The current Syrian coast ), in the area already known for its cedars.

The fixing of the feast of All Saints on its current date of 1 November is attributed to Pope Gregory III ( 731 – 741 ), but from the testimony of Pseudo-Bede it is known that 1 November was already associated with All Saints in Great Britain by the beginning of the 8th century.

A great proportion of current terrestrial communications already passes through satellites.

In 1997, IUPAC decided to give dubnium its current name honoring the city of Dubna where the Russian team made their discoveries since American-chosen names had already been used for many existing synthetic elements, while the name rutherfordium ( chosen by the American team ) was accepted for element 104.

Antarctica — which was already separate — drifted to its current position over the South Pole.

( The SI second, when adopted, was already a little shorter than the current value of the second of mean solar time.

They also popularized the word " transformer " to describe a device for altering the EMF of an electric current, although the term had already been in use by 1882.

If some supporters articulate that they agree to the independence of Taiwan, they may either be referring to the notion of formally creating an independent Republic of Taiwan, or to the notion that Taiwan is synonymous with the current Republic of China and already is independent, which is against the People's Republic of China's claim.

Whether the current ROC makes Taiwan already independent or not is controversial in Cross-Strait relations.

The inventors also popularized the word " transformer " to describe a device for altering the EMF of an electric current, although the term had already been in use by 1882.

Teenage sexual activity ( as measured by age at first intercourse and current sexually active status ) actually increased significantly from 1984 to 1991, especially among women, but this was often overlooked since such changes were erroneously assumed to have already happened a decade before, and that the revolution was presumably over.

This consolidated state of Sweden already included Finland presumably from an early crusade into the area of Tavastland in central current day Finland.

Previous Speakers have been minority leaders ( when the majority party changes, as they are already the House party leader, and as the minority leader is usually their party's nominee for speaker ), or majority leaders ( upon departure of the current speaker in the majority party ), assuming that the party leadership hierarchy is followed.

The current implementation of the idea gains impetus from the relative ease with which digital delivery systems can handle what would otherwise have required, in the past, either a dedicated mechanical projector or the transfer to another film format for which projectors were already available.

The island ( along with its surrounding islets ) became a separate insular council ( with the same territory as the municipality of the same name ) after 1977 ; before that, it was administered in the former insular council of Ibiza and Formentera ( covering the whole group of the Pitiusic Islands ), but in a separate comarca ( which already covered the current municipality of Formentera ).

Adding that economic and political means would be needed to relieve the country's current crisis, and that the Congress were obstructing said means ; having already paralyzed the State, they sought to destroy it.